Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere. Blaise Pascal

Will at The View from the Foothills pointed me toThe Cavalcade of Bad Nativities, originally posted last year. You must see these to believe.

Tim Challies reviews the movie March of the Penguins.

Via Joanne Jacobs’ blog, Starting next year, all British school children will be taught to read using phonics. And how long will it take the U.S. education system to follow suit?

Speaking of reading to children, Susan of Chicken Spaghetti ask us what our favorite children’s book of the year is. I’ll be posting later in the month about my favorites for this year. In the meantime, what’s yours?

Finally for this week, Neo-Neocon writes about Clive Wearing, a British conductor who lost his long term memory in an attack of encephalitis, and his wife Deborah. The story is that despite the extreme difficulty of sustaining a marriage in which one partner can’t remember anything for more than a minute, Clive and Deborah are still married, still in love, still committed. Neo-Neocon says that Deborah sustains herself “with the help of religion, which she found a few years ago.” What religion, I wonder?